Methinks I see a heavenly host

Of angels on the wing

Methinks I hear their chearful notes

So merrily they sing

So merrily they sing

'Let all your fears be banish'd hence

Glad tidings I proclaim

For there's a saviour born to day

And jesus is his name

And jesus is his name

Lay down your crooks and quit your flocks

To bethlehem repair

And let your wand'ring steps be squared

By yonder shining star

By yonder shining star

Seek not in courts or palaces

Nor royal curtains draw

But search the stable see your god

Extended on the straw

Extended on the straw

Then learn from hence ye rural swains

The meekness of your god

Who left the boundless realms of joy

To ransom you with blood

To ransom you with blood

The master of the inn refus'd

A more commodius place

Ungenerous soul of savage mould

And destitute of grace

And destitute of grace

Exult ye oxen low for joy

Ye tenants of the stall

Pay your obeisance on your knees

Unanimously fall

Unanimously fall

The royal fuest you entertain

Is not of common birth

But second in the great I am

The god of heaven and earth'

The god of heaven and earth'

Then suddenly a heavenly host

Around the shepherds throng

Exulting in the threefold god

And thus address their song

And thus address their song

'To god the father christ the son

And holy ghost ador'd

The first and last the last and first

Eternal praise afford

Eternal praise afford